US 12,069,903 B2
Display device having a transparent mask that includes a transparent oxide
Yang Ho Jung, Seoul (KR); Jun Gi Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Jae Hun Lee, Seongnam-si (KR); and Bo Geon Jeon, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/220,195.
Application 18/220,195 is a continuation of application No. 17/141,222, filed on Jan. 5, 2021, granted, now 11,711,947.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0005206 (KR), filed on Jan. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0354650 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H10K 59/122 (2023.01); H10K 50/84 (2023.01); H10K 50/86 (2023.01); H10K 59/35 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/122 (2023.02) [H10K 50/84 (2023.02); H10K 50/865 (2023.02); H10K 59/353 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to pixel circuits disposed on a substrate;
a pixel defining layer defining a plurality of opening regions, each of the opening regions exposing a portion of each of the first electrodes;
a plurality of light emitting layers respectively disposed on the first electrodes in the opening regions;
a second electrode covering the light emitting layers and the pixel defining layer;
an encapsulation layer disposed on the second electrode; and
a plurality of light blocking patterns disposed on the encapsulation layer and extending in a first direction,
wherein each of the light blocking patterns traverses one of the plurality of opening regions in plan view.